Followup to: <20010906155811.BC78DBC06C@spike.porcupine.org>By author: wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema)In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel>> Andrey Savochkin:> > Of course, SIOCGIFCONF isn't even close to provide the list of local> > addresses.> > Obvious example: it doesn't enlist all addresses 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2 etc.> > on common systems. If you handle 127.0.0.2 as local, you apply side> > 127.0.0.2 is not local on any of my systems. The only exceptions> are some Linux boxen that I did not ask to do so.>

The RFCs declare that 127.0.0.0/8 is all local. If what you write istrue, all your systems are noncompliant.